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‘Suspected military training camp discovered in SA was operating illegally’

Date: Aug 7, 2024

The training programme offered at the suspected military camp in South Africa's White River, in the Mpumalanga province, where 95 Libyan nationals were arrested two weeks ago, is said to have been illegal. 

The Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) says the programme was not in line with its standards. PSIRA released its preliminary findings into the camp, and found a private security company; Milites Dei Security Services (MDSS), violated various criminal statutes for operating at the camp. 

The company and its directors have since been served with notices of suspension and cannot provide any security training or service until the investigation is finalized. Briefing the media in Pretoria, PSIRA CEO, Manabela Chauke says the make-up of the camp was a red flag.

"The makeup of the camp itself, the infrastructure that is there, we do not have such type of infrastructure for ordinary security training. Unless they are doing an advanced tactical course, but these ones we do not have. They dug trenches; we don't do trenches here, and many other things we have seen. We had an opportunity to look at the programme, so we made much more firm conclusions as to the type of training that was done there."

--SABC--

 

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